Oh yeah, really good.

She's telling it.

Oh thank you.

I'm glad she's learning the fundamentals and not just because she's interested in broadcast journalism.

Radio TV.

So I target the fundamentals, which is the writing part.

Yeah.

She's working on something now.

This would be interesting.

I don't want to spoil it though.

After the last article.

Yeah.

We're going on another one, yeah.

That's a great opportunity.

You just have to do the thing you love the most.

Do you by broad possible?

I know.

That's great.

If you want to do that.

Oh, excuse me.

Is it looking to the public?

Yes.

Well, I won't take up your seats.

Oh, there are seats if you want to go.

Okay.

No, I'm looking for the social services.

Yeah, this is our.

I'll be in a second.

And we are live, correct?

Yes.

Well, then welcome to the July 24th, 2025 Social Service Human Relations Board Meeting, otherwise known as Shrub.

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Public comment will be limited to three minutes.

The public has two opportunities for public comments.

First under agenda item two public comments.

Comments from the audience may concern matters either on or not on the agenda, but must deal with matters subject to the jurisdiction of the social service human relations board.

Second, under each agenda item, there will be an opportunity for public comment on that specific item.

Each item follows a format similar to city council meeting.

First, after a presentation, we will ask if there are any clarifying questions from Shrub members for staff.

Second, we will ask if there are any public comments on this agenda item.

And finally, after public comment, we will open the item up to board discussion and vote if recommended.

And uh we will be doing roll call.

Uh Bernie Wolf here.

I'm gonna do it out of order.

Samantha Green.

Uh Scott Means here.

And Michelle Buckholes here.

Oh, doesn't it accounted for and on time?

Okay.

I'm still reading your name.

All right.

Oh, we also have with us from Housing Human Services, Manager Simone Falls, Grescia Mannyan, program manager, and Ali Wong, HHS summer intern.

And welcome everyone here.

So we will go right into non-agenda public comments.

Um, city welcome speakers provide public comment, but please be advised.

This is a limited public forum.

Comments from the audience may concern matters either on or not on the agenda, but must deal with matters subject to the jurisdiction of the social service and human relations board.

Comments will be limited to three minutes.

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If speakers uh fail to follow these rules, they will be warned, and if they continue to disregard the rules, or opportunity to speak will end.

Do we have um anyone?

Either uh or no speakers?

We do not have any public comment.

I don't see any hands raised.

Okay, thank you, Josh.

Oh, we have a public comment by Carol Mayhart.

I believe go ahead.

Good evening, members of the Social Service Human Relations Board.

My name is Carol Mahar and I serve as the development Director at Spectrum Community Services, a nonprofit that has proudly been serving Alameda County for over 50 years.

Earlier this month, we submitted a letter of support to the City of Alameda and the Public Utilities Board, urging them to join us in advocating for measure W funds to be allocated to utility relief and weatherization services for low-income residents.

As you know, these funds are currently under consideration by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and the final allocations are still being shaped.

At Spectrum, we see the direct impact these services have on our community community.

Each year our team helps thousands of seniors, families, and individuals with low income stay safely housed by providing utility bill assistance and critical weatherization upgrades that make their homes more energy efficient and reduce their monthly costs.

These aren't just energy services.

They are homelessness prevention tools and lifelines for residents living on the edge.

In the city of Alameda, we've supported numerous households ensuring that older adults, people with disabilities, and working families are not forced to choose between heating their homes and paying for food or medication.

I shared uh the other night at the board of supervisors, meaning that the average household we serve has an income of a staggering $16,000 a year.

So without utility assistance, they face possible choices of eviction and even homelessness.

Federal funding for the programs are shrinking, and without local support through measure W, we may not be able to meet the growing need.

And that's why we're urging the City of Alameda to stand with us through a letter of support or resolution or any other form of advocacy that can help us amplify the call to protect these services.

We believe your city's voice carries weight and your leadership can help ensure that these essential services like utility assistance and weatherization remain available to the residents who need them the most.

Thank you so much for your time and for your commitment to social equity and housing stability in the city of Alameda and the County of Alameda as well.

Happy to answer any questions or provide additional information.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, um, now uh we'll move to the review and approval of minutes for May 22nd and June 26th.

So were any members of this board not at one of those two meetings?

I don't remember.

There's not one of those meetings.

Okay, which one?

Okay, June, okay.

So we have to do two separate votes then, right?

So we're gonna do the one for May 1st.

If someone wants to put a motion forward, I'll put the motion forward.

I second your first and a second, and uh we can we don't need to have a roll call vote.

So all those in favor say aye.

Um those opposed, okay.

And then the second one we're looking at is the June 26th.

Oh, put forward another motion.

Oh, here.

Okay, we have a first, we have a second again.

I'm just those present uh vote.

All those uh in favor, aye.

I stand, no, I'm staying, and oh, and I say aye too.

Sorry, yeah.

All right, so that's we're done.

Um, so item number four uh four A is presentation of the 2025 housing and human services internship.

Um, presenting the 2025 housing and human service internship is urgent alley long.

Hi, I'm Allie Wong.

I'm a sort of interview for asking us.

And uh, um, we do want to go on.

Okay, so this is my intervention.

So I'm rising to the Alameda High School and show them the internship of Dave Alameda's housing.

And we're really excited to get to work with show, and now I can hear about how this system and the organization is.

I've gained valuable experience in these internship and how this division helps the community in house services and resources are provided for those who are really happy to miss like how this division improves our community and social equity and how to ensure that everyone has access to a housing and um how about basic service.

Sorry.

So about housing and human services.

So I know that the aim to reserve from the building construct or something in C and Louis.

So they have like the village of love and the village and the day center and um and I know that we have something called the development off grant C B D C D D which involves five of the urban communities by design and decent housing environments.

Also they spend economic opportunities for people.

And I know that we support residents who are homes at risk of homelessness and yeah we did it uh we have a lot of missions like again a bit of a bunch of love and a decent period uh the uh uh showing and I know that we support algae residents who are in research who we are in need of basic resources and services like for example we have diamond connect which is a real program for people to be able to meet within need every day and I know that we have the multiple shower and monitor services for those CDC each year high team and I'm about to collaborate with the social service is trying to do safety for more income residents and uh for example we collaborate with family services for the futures of women and children along the white collaborative and operation digit.

Last summer in terms of so for my first time a lot about local government working at how many resources and a lot about social services but I had a lot of research time and a lot of uh I had time for the local government uh sites and stuff and I toured all the shelters along with them and I really liked learning about the details of how things work and I had to have uh a lot of all of emails and I learned about how like the other government works and number two through show and the vote home committee I helped um with shovel setups for the meeting club like for example I set up like I attended all the meetings and I helped set up today and last month um in June for our meeting last month and um I researched the work home and two plan and research how like we shall use this and DVDs and PCs and stuff like that.

And um and um I made actually the show appliar for HMCs of like a listening session which is where like people of any age can come into the mass extreme center and listen about how each of these works and how we help and prepares uh I attended the cares meeting last time and I to help with cares I helped set up uh now before and I attended the meeting and I called the whole list of terrorist members to check in for their attendance and to check if they have been going to contest my case.

So for a better understanding of local government and writing about the procedures of board meetings like this one and I learned that the local government is really transparent to the public so everything has to be approved really early on and um I also had other projects presentations and a lot of tasks to do that I really like had gained like valuable experience and more I had more exposure to like community social service collaborations.

So I of course I was like tour in the village of love, digging the village day center, and I just learned about like specific things that we need to do to help people of low income.

And I also met and recalled the carriage members, so I got to meet like people from different operations.

And I had a deep understanding and pretty low-income primaries when I learned about like specific people, like I shared a being the case manager, she explained a certain situation to a woman that was um like camping out at Washington Park and the situation, all the trauma that she had of any reason why she can like there in her life, and um I just I just learned so many specific things that you do, so many uh the studio thing you do to get someone to a shelter or uh team village and things so they can help so they can be able to live without stress of like home or food or hygiene or anything like that, and that's pretty much it.

Um thank you for for that.

Um we can now open the floor for discussion and comments by board members.

Uh, yeah, ask questions, yes, perfect questions.

Do you think you would go into government work?

Honestly, yeah.

Um, so I actually was thinking of like years, about the local government.

And I just wanted to try it out, and now that I've worked for a couple of weeks, I'm gonna seem so we can just kind of use the kind of over the shop.

But it was like very nice to learn about my community, trying to help my community, and just like working in collaborative and to make people my uh question.

You speak really well.

I've enjoyed your our connections.

I can see that you're really bright and really sincere.

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing about you over the year because I've afterwards because it's a group.

Thank you, thank you.

Have you chosen a college yet?

No, I'm going into my senior year, so I'm like in the fall and decide up for uh what are your we needs?

Um, we move yet.

Um I definitely want to stay in California because we're live in Australia, it's more affordable to stay in the state.

And um I probably could go to the sea somewhere in Southern California.

Um actually just mentioned, you know, working in government, I worked over 20 years in government, and where I got my degree was the University of San Francisco, they have a really excellent department of public administration.

Right.

Oh, okay.

And Lone Mountain campus is beautiful.

I don't know if you've been to that campus.

I actually my freshman year as workers with raise.

Oh yeah, cool.

So I have a question.

I think that's okay.

How was your experience as a younger person inside the city?

Like, does it feel like it's welcoming and people are interested in that very well?

And I noticed that maybe because I'm still a kid, like having those extra nice, like buying new lunch and stuff like that.

It was like at first it was a little intimidating because I'm about a lot of adults and a lot of people and more and more experience than me, and even like sharing office with people who were older than me.

And it was like at first it was scary, but like after like my first day, I realized it was like much of a woman taught, and I got really comfortable with people I was working with, and I just so long, I really like my experience in the situation.

I have a question.

So um all the experience that you've had, is there anything in particular that you have a key interest in working on and that kind of what's the change that you feel like?

Um I'm not very sure, but I just know that I really like helping people like maybe quite like work like community outreach helping uh face to face with people who are in the needed of like services like that, social services.

I kind of like, I'm not sure, but I feel like I fit well with like all the all parts of it, but I really am interested in helping people up front on the case of energy or like just helping people and just knowing learning about their personal experience so I can help them later in their life so they don't have to struggle with finance or own passing or we one of our goals is also to engage more young people and high school students and some of our mission.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas of how we can engage more high school students?

One, and then the second question was what is I mean you're only in person, but do you feel like among your peers, what is the general impression of vulnerable and uh like maybe just unhoused individuals?

Do you think there's a lot of thought or care about that or awareness?

I should say.

And like any sort of like posters that are online or any of the pop-ups or like advertisement would be helpful because on TikTok or on my tick tock, yeah, anything, but like, because like you don't really so with people and out of you don't really go and put flyers and coaches on the wall, you just pop it just pops up on your phone when we scroll it, right?

So any kind of engaging thing on social media would be really helpful because also in social media it can be really like entertaining and engaging, and like sometimes like I learned things from TikTok, like oh, like something happened, and it's happening, easy talk or any, not just TikTok or Instagram or anything, I just learn about events or opportunities or movie service opportunities, and then really actually does help me, and people also can just send it easy to like other people they want to send to school.

So it's just really direct and really like efficient instead of just like physical copies like on the walls because people don't really search wise, they just see pop-ups in package high school.

And would you say TikTok and Instagram are the main?

Yeah, I would say so.

Um Facebook works too, but I notice like a lot of young people don't really go on Facebook, mostly Instagram or something, and yeah, it's like for social media, it's just I find it really efficient to find information, obviously not for research because sometimes it's not reliable, but like any sort of like advertising, yeah, getting the word out and spreading the words which you can do as really efficient things, as like easy as it's like a lot of interest to get some sort of like uh community outreach.

My 19 year old daughter says the same thing.

Yeah, that's a great situation.

And um what you said?

Um more I mean I think there's part of us that are really engaged and focused on people who are unhoused.

How is that feel like a predominant issue or is their talker for this and trying to figure out the question is is just is it on the radar um as a social issue?

I think our main of you know homelessness or homelessness, domestic violence, and I think you know uh racism, hate crimes.

I think those are our three main sort of focuses here.

Do you or safety could be the other way put it in?

Yeah, so what are you saying?

I guess it's like is this feel like local in your community?

Is this something that like people are talking about?

Yeah, I feel like even in high school, people will always be pretty self-aware, especially with the rise of social media and like and like I just realized I think a lot of people are very social aware, socially aware, and would specifically homeless more.

I think in Alameda people, I would say so because even in my school, I attend a club of really popular club called the human helping community, and it's basically about providing the helpless and like being educated on the topic.

And when I attended that, that that honestly that helped me get this internship too because I'm worried about it, and also I had more of a like a passion to like learn about it more and extend that information.

And often maybe we find out the the teacher who's sponsoring that club and we could talk to your club?

Uh yeah, sure.

Um for my club, my friend is uh officer, I can learn you know too.

And at first, like it we started like it's pretty new to you, but it's always a cool cost.

But when I first attended, like I was a little like skeptical.

Like, okay, I don't know, because it's gonna be like one of those like clubs are actually engaged because the club is saying is it's lucky or anything?

But when I attend the meetings every Monday at lunch, it's very engaging and also like it's it brought like a lot of people to the clubs because everyone knows each other.

We bring new people in and we're next year.

I'm not an officer of the club, but I am part of a club, and so we're thinking about like uh doing more like the this um duration thing for a game and you did like a big sale too.

And we all are needed to be sent together with that.

What was the couple?

Uh humans helping women.

I think the other two issues were domestic comments and then races.

Okay.

Oh, about the musical community on Instagram is called PC, each for you see, like the ages.

Oh, so the other issues were just balance and races.

Um, um, I feel like on social media, a lot of people should wear for the genesis.

I don't really know about like other classes, you know, locally see that in the public, but it's definitely an issue that people are aware of now.

Also with like um, like celebrity things, it's like reschedules, like you hear about it, you know about it, and I just I don't know if it's for everyone social media.

I see stuff about it and I see like stories or like news, local views about it.

So like I I think it's people are aware of it, but I don't really know how people are helping right now.

There's not much you can do when it's behind closed years, you know.

But I think what we need to do is like just be more aware of it and people close by the ones, but it's fine, then it says, 'Oh, racism, yeah.' And um, I feel like this when we have the racism, like, I feel like it's hard to catch you some of the time as a fresh off.

But I don't know if you probably knew about the situation at my high school, I mean in high school with the on goals looking.

I remember when that first happened, like I heard about it, but I didn't know if it was true, and then I go and use about it, and then when that first happened, like in my there's something we call smart periods, like a food board period, right?

And when that happened, all the teachers were required to show the uh principal talking about the issue and telling us like what happened and like what we can do now to prevent that.

And basically, like she basically stated like how like it's it's against the rules and like they're gonna be more careful with like catching it, you know, because the incident that happened, like I remember a lot of people talking about it on social media, but I didn't know it was gonna be as it was, and now it's actually a good thing that was really big because now people are more aware of it because even on the local news, and even like I was involved in Cash Royale, she didn't hear about it too, which is crazy.

So people were definitely aware of it, but I don't know if everyone, I don't know.

I don't know if everyone in like my school is like taking it seriously, those topics.

Like I don't have a personal experience of seeing it.

I don't know.

I try to keep my friends like a good group of friends that are you know, not racist obviously, but um I just know that everyone is aware of it on social media too.

On social media also were going to be way more careful because you're doing a book right, but I guess for that situation I thought that uh on virtual thing.

Like I guess she thought that girl thought um it wasn't taken out, but obviously, so continue to express as click up as easy as a clipboard button, it's easy to spread something.

So people were definitely aware, but I don't know if everyone is taking it seriously though.

So that's a problem we use for this.

Thank you.

Are there any uh comments or questions from the audience about this specific?

I just hear it for the uh oh uh this is it's a report for any speakers or comments.

I don't know if this would need to have speakers or comments.

Or I'm just like it's 4A, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a yeah, just says there's a point.

Or the speakers or comments.

But I don't know if you can't.

I guess not.

I guess it's pretty next item.

But we'll see.

Anybody else one more?

So do you have any for this item?

So she doesn't have a line specifically.

She wanted to have general talk.

Oh my god.

Oh, they're doing that.

I have a copy.

I just am happy that you have the opportunity to work with us and that it was an original for you.

It's good to hear.

And it's interesting that you say that I never thought about the age thing that it was intimidating to be in a room with older people.

Especially for me, because in my opinion, it's room for young people.

So that was in my way for me to I never even would have thought about that.

So something else.

Yeah.

I'm like, she's not a kid.

Like, when you say you were a kid, you're like, who's getting so good?

So that's probably that way.

Yeah.

And a lot of our first jobs are with a bunch of teenagers.

So it does make it differently, so you like happy.

I guess new city is where you're on social media as much or know much about it, but anyway.

Oh, shit, right.

But there is like a like a difference in how we're supposed to work with Gen Z, Gen X, Glenn, or whatever, but it's just like amazing because it would just too target or probably anything like that, or just to get the word out.

You gotta target specific.

I have a specific strategy to target a certain age.

Um so we do have public comment for this item.

Yes, Karen.

Sorry.

Current or shop.

And you have three minutes, thank you.

Okay.

Um I'm a little nervous, so excuse me.

And I appreciate all of you in this in this commission.

I wish I would have known about it three years ago.

Because unfortunately, you're being lied to.

Has anybody read the contracts?

The providers providers have.

And the mayor is trying to cover it up.

The chief of police, the chief of fire, and sitting in a chair.

And they have dragged me through hell for all these years.

Everything he says is a lie.

Outreach.

Oh, today they parked in a parking lot and stayed there all day, not doing anything.

Saturday and Sunday, nothing.

Does anybody um notice that there haven't been any reviews until recently?

There was one, and that's only because I requested it to records.

I was taking a year off of teaching after 30 years, just during COVID.

And I thought, you know what, this TikTok shows me this van life thing, I'm gonna go do that for a year and travel with my two new kittens.

I made it to one state, Missouri, where I became a victim of a horrible crime that took everything away from me.

Committed by law enforcement.

On my way home, when I finally was able to get home, I said out loud to myself, I cannot wait to get home because I know my city will take care of me.

Because I remember the 14.

Little did I know.

That I'm gonna get help from my own city.

I've been attacked over and over and over again.

Police haven't done anything.

I attempted murder.

Dows and Casoline almost caught on fire with a match.

They've done nothing.

Twenty over 20 crimes have been committed against me.

As soon as they found out I knew.

And all I did was go to them to tell them.

I've been sitting here for almost a year, and I have done nothing.

I don't even know how I lived.

Thank you for your comments.

I'm sorry, the three minutes has expired.

So thank you.

Thank you for coming.

I wish I would have known that because last dinner.

Thank you.

Joey Harrison just got off the streets to sell.

You should see the way he's living now.

There's not a thing that he says that is true.

Thank you.

And the mayor is gonna go to jail.

And same with that chief who calls himself a cheap.

Um, you know what really is happening is they're messing with people's mental health.

Mental health.

We heard you talk.

We blame it on drugs.

Thank you very much.

Have a good evening.

Have a good evening.

Exactly.

All right.

Thank you.

I'm the crazy girl, I'm a blue man.

Yeah, and I'm gonna be here.

So this is it.

And how many people are it's all the time?

It's full of that.

Thank you everyone for your patience.

I was gonna close it.

Close the door.

Do you want any of the time to deal with it?

Okay, we can wait to catch.

Alright.

Um we're going to um move forward.

Colonel I think survival.

No toes.

Guess what they do?

They tell everyone's on time.

They took my life away.

They killed my cat.

They took my children.

Yes.

I was gonna start with all the words.

I just want to I don't necessarily want to go.

Thank you, for your patience.

Yeah, let's break it.

Yeah, let's take a short break.

Let's take a five minute break.

Okay.

Yeah.

So we will be back and let's just say how much.

How long do you want to do it's not?

Well, that's like three, this is like three minutes.

Yeah.

And we are going to receive the meeting after our short recess.

All right, thank you.

Oh, he's got one.

Restroom.

Let's just come back.

Okay.

Um.

So I was supposed to ask, so before we close out, item 4A.

Are there any additional comments or questions from the board about this items?

Presentation.

Oh, sorry.

And actually that was just another instance to be so long for time.

Okay, so I figured we were done.

Okay.

So item 4B is going to be a presentation on all means against hate committee resolution.

And how's the housing Human Services staff.

We provide an update on the AUAH resolution and leading a discussion on next steps.

Great.

So I do have my notes.

Alright, so I'm gonna give you all an update on where the committee is and the next steps of feedback.

So some background on the resolution.

This has been the works for a long time, about two years.

It's a very thoughtful process.

The committee has engaged with community members, bank leaders, with the school district, parent leaders, they've engaged with the city manager's office, they can each of you all seeking feedback.

It's been a very collaborative and thoughtful effort.

They've taken data from the community needs assessment to determine how they would like this to be structured.

Um we sent this to you all, it's still in draft form to gather some feedback, and I thought it would be the most productive for me to provide some of the high level feedback and then what recommendations we have as staff.

So I'm going to make the recommendations, I'll share the next steps with you all.

Actually, I'll do the next steps now.

So once I make the recommendations, we can move to clarifying questions.

So the next steps that will happen with in terms of this resolution is that committee members Gerald and Diane will be meeting, we'll be requesting feedback from city council and the mayor, and they will be meeting with them potentially one-to-one to get feedback.

And so that would be the next step of the process before if it gets to council.

So the main, so starting from the top, we had some feedback that this highlighted section, I think because this has been worked on for so long that when it was first created, COVID felt very relevant.

I do think my recommendation, staff recommendation would be probably to include this section.

It feels a little bit dated, and it um I noticed it was distracting to some folks when they were reading the resolution.

Because the first two items cite a specific resolution and city council item, and then the next one's a more scripted, kind of a departure from that.

The next item that received a lot of feedback was number three.

So this primarily had to do with the concern for staff capacity.

Um there were questions about because the city has done work and created a plan around um equity already, but it's very much internal facing.

So for example, every staff member is required to attend an in-person four-hour DIE training.

Um, and it's uh contracted with an outside consultant, so city manager's office, they remind us about that, and there has been some work for internal facing work.

Um, and so the recommendation staff has here is to make this more focused in terms of outward basic work.

So the language can resemble something like, and to put it, I know there was a conversation around like how much it would be put on committee members, how much staff be involved.

So our recommendation would be for staff to lead the development of an action plan that incorporates feedback from the city departments and different boards with direction and support from Trump.

So the intention of this action plan would be to ensure that there's a faculty lens over how we provide services to the public.

So whereas we had a plan that's more internal facing, this one would be more external facing.

The next item that there was feedback on quite a bit, and I found that this one in general just had so many different interpretations.

Um, because we use somewhat work, what I would call kind of like buzzwords that are important, but maybe people have different interpretations of it.

Like, for example, restorative justice means I learned through this feedback process different things to different people.

Um, but what I remember in our conversations is that the intention of number five is really to focus on improving how we deliver services to those with the highest disparities based on data from the community needs assessment.

And so that would be my recommendation and staff recommendation for how we would adjust that.

Um so that concludes my report.

Um, slash, you can you say that last thing again?

I don't think I've like you've said not restored to be said to can you just repeat that last line i didn't fully answered.

Yeah, so these are just some notes I have.

I don't have like the specifics, but what I would suggest here is that we just explicitly name that what we're looking to do is improve how we deliver services to those with the highest disparities per the community needs assessment thank you I'd like you using some plural there because that was like one of the points I had too because we we don't want to be an Olympics where only one if there could be multiple groups of people that have interlacing issues.

I think a great example of that is open unified school district high school kids it's it's black and Latino males right and and one may be a little bit higher than the other but both of those groups within that gender need need assistance and I just want to use opportunity to jump in with our comments here just to say something about the framework of this and and just kind of connect a few dots here because we're all working on different things.

I sort of made a list as we were sitting here before the meeting listing sort of there's like the big five things we deal with in like in human services um and putting them together is really important and top of my list was economic disparities and you know we know we have homelessness and it's attached to money right and then we have age which is you know there's age is and people get more frail they have more needs to get older there's disability which people have physical disabilities have no control over but then the next two are completely social constructs that are harder really to get your hands around because they're not attached to something physical and that's race and gender and it is really important for us to look at those two subjects separately um and equally to these other ones or to get a complete picture of where need is and so I just want to want you to know I know I'm really like head headlong into the age friendly um part of things but this is actually so important because it it doesn't work unless it's all connected together all these knowledge sets.

So thank you for working on that.

That's more of a statement than a question I'm sorry but I just want to I've been thinking about this a lot over the last week and wanted to put that framework on it I think the only one you're missing in that that we're focused on and I think the city is really focused is uh sexual orientation well I was actually just about to give an update I would I don't know if I would put them separate right they they are separate.

Yeah that's a different okay yeah um so my update on that specifically is that um um work around and uplifting and making and making sure that our LGBTQ community feels safe is also priority for council um and they are also working on an action plan in parallel to this one so it is going it's going through the same process as this one that the committee is leading okay just so I think sex and genders that things are different that we're going to put the sexual orientation part like LGBTQ.

Can I just like a clarifying question this like what like what happens like we present it to council they vote and then what happens and what happens is I get to work on action plan.

Okay.

And and then so I mean so the I know so we're still going through the process of like getting this in front of them right having them back it and approve it and then after that we would move to more of the action items of surveying the different departments and uh continuing it'll also be part of our community needs assessment.

So the results of that will also help inform the next steps for what the committee is doing.

Gotcha.

And then they also have I I'll let you all speak to the other going on that I agree.

I'm sorry I need to say this out loud so it's on the record.

We had this disagreement just now about the what you know gender and orientation it's I look at it as sex and gender so sexual orientation is in gender and sex.

I do see that as two different things I think we're using different terminology to say the same thing rather than actually disagreeing so yeah.

Well I guess um what we've been working on for the past many years is the you know declaring LBA city um participating in the national um events um and then doing I you know we may not do a code so we may do something else we would love your recommendations on what would bring young people and on our talk about a we're talking about racism um and then we did the public library series that we were hoping to do and bring in external speakers to talk about our different communities and provide some historical corporationality.

Or the uh the uh HCYF in the program as well.

Yeah, that's enough.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, so it's a good start.

And I have to say that since I saw this last a year ago, I think it's very evolved in a really positive way.

So I really congratulate both of you for the thought you put into it and the fact that you've really listened that speaks really highly of both of you.

We tried.

I have one, one just suggestion I want to make since it wasn't touched on um specifically, um, I would try to scrub um any um acronyms or um technical speak out of as much as possible, and just the there's this one case that I saw in here.

You use the term BIPOC, and I think it should be I mean you don't need to literally write out the acronym, it could be another way of saying it, but I think it should be really explicit to someone that who knows the common tongue that they can be to go, oh I get what they're talking about, and besides that I unfortunately the Indians of Alameda disappeared 200 years ago when they were sent to Mission San Jose before when the Spanish were ruling, so I don't really think there are any remnants here, at least interestingly enough.

I had a conversation with a young man who had a couple of different meetings, who was part of the indigenous people's program here in Alameda.

There is, and so there's a presence there, but I think it's right.

They don't get any attention, they don't get any resources, they you know, they're just because I went to when to the gathering of Aloney Peoples and um in um Coyote Eagles and there was nobody, and I actually asked about what happened in Alameda, nobody had the idea.

If there were anybody left over here, yeah, there was lost.

We need to find it here.

Yeah, so there was quite a history.

But people do, I mean, uh some that's still live in Alameda.

Right.

I bet um, yeah, if you know, it's definitely from Alameda.

Is there anything we can do in the resolution that you think could aid its passage as it currently?

Like, um, is there anything that we need to do or lobby to encourage its passage or anything we could help?

Um, well, this is helpful, we'll be voting on it next game.

Okay.

So, and then uh that city council meeting would be great.

I'm sure that's true that's yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or lots of communications to the people on the board, uh, the top.

Can we say that?

Can we say that to encourage people to anyone that's a resident of Alvin as well have to make a public comment?

And and then the only other thing is was wondering uh in the action plan.

Is there any kind of thought of like how do we measure our success or see how we did like I know that's the only like really challenge for these larger concepts that it's there's they're not measurable?

Is there anything you think we could do to to think about how we could have some sort of accountability in that draft?

I think the internal work so there will be evidence.

I do think that um, I keep leaning on this, but I think the community needs assessment is just like a really excellent place.

That's where we do surveys and track members.

It's gonna be a long-term, like we'll we'll have the assessment this year, we'll prepare it for the fall and the next one, and that will tell us like how successful we are.

And then maybe in the action items that we should like include, and I know I wasn't a part of the needs assessment, but maybe we add like explicit questions about perceptions of hate safety, like maybe we need to add some explicit questions on these metrics so we could track them and then make sure we have some way of saying of like, you know, do you feel safe?

Do you feel it?

I think the belonging.

That's the word I'm looking for.

Awesome.

That was one of my questions about at school.

What's what's the status of goal in there?

Um, um the status of what's in our skin.

Oh, I feel like it's not like the awfully good, I think.

I feel like it's not like bullying like a little movies, but usually it's easy to like brush off or like passive, you know, but it's not really a big issue.

It's any sort of issue, you can consider that everybody specifically, which usually like the consent of this to like the difference for anything, but on the show for me, I feel like it's not too much in my experience and my observations of over there, yeah.

I think we see that much.

I think I was gonna say, I think there's also in the um, we put it in the community needs assessment, but there's additional stuff that comes through the surveys from the schools where it has information on uh students' perception of discrimination, bullying, and um safety, feeling safe, and then feeling that they have uh trusted.

That's a great question.

Yeah, so those are all in there, and we can make sure that we continue to track those.

I think that would be a good because there's there's actually like a there's a longer section, so might be a good place to review what's included in that community needs accessible.

Maybe we um students and well, yeah, yeah, if there's additional.

So we met with a lot of parents, um uh uh who were parents of color, and basically they have had horrific experiences um with the remote school system, so um that was validating in some ways to hear what they went through, even though it was horrible.

Um so you know, we felt like you know, this is needed, it's it's something that we can't just be underbread.

Um, we should you know come out and be bold and then um the timeline, it has an issue.

So we say is people of color, what groups are you really?

So the school district had convene um uh groups of parents based on their ethnicity, so there was African American parent group, there's Asian American parents group, there was uh, spending right, yeah, and there were representatives for each of those groups that we spoke to about what experiences they've had.

Uh or the children have had in the schools, but they've also had passive aggressive behavior in as parent level as well.

So um there was an incident also at Lincoln uh middle school, and there was some organizing that had occurred there by I was our American parents, and they actually hosted like a hate-free um, you know, whatever forum forum.

So uh, you know, there are there are folks in the community that want to work on this and see that it's important to kind of ensure that that'll be this is welcoming place for all, yeah, and especially for children.

Okay, oh I'm sorry, um could we just ask if there's any um yeah, because we can actually have more comments after that.

So can we see if there's anyone in the audience who including the present chair?

Can I can I get email as well?

We do not have we do not have any public comment for this item.

Can I ask one last question?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, that's why I just did that so that we can we can come back.

I just want to make sure they have the opportunity, and then we'll close out the discussion.

So yeah, take your time.

Does it and I don't know who to ask this or if it's appropriate, but in the current political climate with something so explicit in the city, I does this jeopardize any of our funding or I mean I I don't think so.

This feels like a small draft and small, but I is this something we do have to think about.

Yes.

I think every city's soon thinking about it.

I mean, I don't think this means we shouldn't do it, but I just I think like I like I I don't know.

I just I'm like it's so upset, you know.

We hear about these institutions that are just you know, folding or bowing down.

It's just we need to stand up.

Yeah, yeah.

I know you all agree with that.

It's also important to understand what what things actually mean that race and equity and DEI are not necessarily the same thing.

Yes, it's like saying tissue and Kleenex.

Yeah, you know, one DEI is more specific uh more of a specific thing, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So I just I just get nervous.

Yeah.

There's been a certain lack of nuance going on too, I think.

Yeah, uh again, I wrote down some things when I was sitting there that I wanted to just say again, but she and I have been doing is really a commitment to equity inclusion and justice, but it's not just a symbolic kind of thing, we're not really trying to do this just to be symbolic.

And that I think is where the biggest concern is that this will become just a symbolic gesture.

I don't think that we're gonna find ourselves on that very well position.

I know that even using the words like equity and inclusion and justice in today's climate tends to be pins and needles for people because they're afraid of it, but you've been that way all a lot of times, and so the idea that somebody else is afraid today, welcome to the party, and so if you're not afraid, then you're not paying attention.

I'm just I'm I'm looking to make this.

I mean, again, as I said, we're proposing essentially practical community informed steps to hold us accountable, ensuring that we have a way to confront the systemic racism, and again, our our job here as board members tonight is to have this discussion and to be as committed as we can because the people who we're gonna be passing it on to are gonna be as candid as they can, and I know the community that I live in is a very uh diverse community, but I also know that I'm part of that exception that they talk about and not the rule, and so I'm trying to maintain my realism.

The lady who was here earlier, things that she spoke about I I don't know the people she was discussing specifically, but I know the programs and the problems that she was talking about in terms of getting services and being homeless in Alameda, and there's quite a bit of that that rings true.

And I know it from personal experience, and so I'm hopeful that I'm hopeful that we're gonna have this move forward so that we can have this type of frank discussion with the people in the city council, hopefully we can have your support for doing it.

But I do believe that being afraid right now is not the right thing to do.

And since hatred is not the norm, we need to work on that now.

That's what I think.

When you asked your question about accountability, I thought about that as well, and ways to be ways to make accountability.

But again, I just I don't want to be uh pressing on any one subject.

I just want to say that we bring this up because we want to see real change, not just, yeah, you did it.

What happened with the last one?

Nobody knows.

What happened was the one from 1997, or like nobody knows.

I don't want to be a nobody knows.

I want this to be something that actually makes that that actually makes a difference, and that's all I'm trying to do here.

Thank you for your energy and effort.

Both of you.

Can I ask a quick question about what uh because I think the action plan again, I think it's the same thing.

Like we want to make sure there's an action plan, but we also want to make sure that that action plan can be measured so that we know that we are making real progress.

Agreed.

Um, and I think I have a question about is there currently data that's available and collected that looks at how services are being provided in the context of the like in comparison to need.

Is that making any sense?

Because that is the last part of the person.

In comparison to need.

The distribution of a distribution of services in comparison to the needs of the community.

I know that what you're asking is specific.

I have done some homework and pulled some information from the exact program that you guys are working on, and a lot of that information is very specific.

And I'm happy to provide that to you after the meeting is over.

But yeah, you can you can look at the numbers, the numbers speak for themselves, and as someone who sees them as such, I try not to over-dramatize, but I'm just trying to be honest.

The the data is there.

Okay.

So we do we in HHS, we look at collect and look at data.

Um I would not say necessarily in terms of this needs assessment that shrugged it, but we do look at the need as far as who we see coming into our systems, the demographics that we're seeing, where they're from, all kinds of different points, and we assess the data and look at how we can improve the programs that something that we're doing now since we've gotten our new program manager on that we're really working on evaluating the programs and making sure they're leading the outcomes that we're expecting.

And it is somewhat new because about to our teams like the expertise using HIS.

So we're able to like create new reports, probably, create new reports and like slice-ifies and evaluate.

So it's a very powerful useful.

Can HMIS system almost management information system?

Or I guess is that the one system?

No, it's clarity.

Okay.

It's the head mandated system that we use for one of the systems.

Okay, I just my biggest worry is that the problem will be solved by not having any more people of color, as Alita is losing black people on a regular basis, the numbers bear that out.

It seems like it'll be a problem that won't need to be fixed.

So hopefully we won't have to see that end of it.

What do you attribute that to?

Um a lot of it has to do with the structural racism and how we're saying things that the other lady was yelling about, are exacerbated when you're a person of color, mainly because there are already the lowest numbers that they're looking at.

So it becomes a given line moment.

We have a lot of people who are in your position, and they are also people of color, but we have a limited amount of services here in Alameda, and since not everybody gets seen, not everybody goes out and speaks up for themselves, not everybody even knows how to go through the process.

They just leave.

They just leave.

Well, there's also the cost of housing, but you see that the language and jobs that we say.

So we're seeing it in all metropolitan areas.

Yeah, it's very true.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you, but your comments.

Um, do we have anything else to say?

Can we move to the next item?

Ready, great.

Um, let's go to item four C the work group report.

This item is for board discussion only.

If there's no stop presentation, we'll go directly to public comment.

Um, are there any public comments first of all?

There is no public on it or that.

Okay.

And it just seems to make sense since we just had this conversation.

Do you have any other uh anything else to add in terms of the LBs against the work group?

Um, only that we're working with as many different community organizations as we can find, we're trying to find parents and organizers from within the community who can have voices that can add to what we're trying to say here.

That's our biggest goal is to get the community involved.

One of the things that Doug Biggs talked about was us being a face in the community that people could see, and the only way you can be a face in the community is to have a community to be a face in front of us.

So we're trying to get ourselves in front of these groups of people so that we can make sure that their voices are heard.

That's all of our uh responsibility.

That's that's what I have.

Okay, thank you.

Um Bernie, how about um domestic violence work group?

So um thank thanks to Gracia for again organizing the task force in our semi-annual task force meeting.

It was not that well attended, and uh the only people attended were two representatives from Building Futures and Albion Family Services, and of course, you know, us folks, and uh, who's missing was the Alameda Police Department and also Family Alliance Law Center.

So uh thanks to Chris.

Again, we've taken a mulligan and we've rescheduled the meeting for the April 4th.

I mean, sorry, uh August 4th.

And we're having a radio.

Yeah, what happened with the police department was that there was a change of personnel and chart, you know, that was ear liaison.

Previously, uh, Officer Spencer Mountain presented statistics, and you know of basically arrest records related domestic violence, and there's a new officer, and I don't know if he may not remember the meeting, but he heard from officer um Mountain that this was actually very valuable.

But one of the things that came up at the meeting has come up before is this issue of uh statistics, it sort of tails on what you were talking about because I reported previously, the statistics show that the um in terms of incidence of arrest, which I don't think is necessarily representative of what's the domestic violence, it's a measurable thing, but the um the the category of individuals were more most likely had the highest incidents of being victims were black women, and the category of uh perpetrators that was the highest were black men, and what part of the discussion was um exactly what to do with this, in other words, they used to have a map where they would show where the arrests were, and they've been hesitant to do that for fear that you know it would look like black people are what it is, yeah, exactly.

So you know, it just occurred to me when I was listening to you.

That may be something that you guys should think about in terms of the okay, so in terms of how you integrate that with your you know, with with what you're doing.

I think the second category with the second highest amount of victims and perpetrators were you know, Latinos, Latinx, whatever.

So, you know, why this happens, I'm not an expert on, but I have a feeling it's more about the family structures and values and uh attitudes about men and women and other stuff.

And I mean, again, we're only talking about arrests and maybe different in terms of uh the stuff I used to deal with, which was civil.

So anyway, there's that, and um we're hopeful I think have somebody from the fire department maybe this time that we can get that.

I figured out who the right person is.

I think okay, and um then also somebody maybe from the school district because when we heard the presentation by this edwards last time, she expressed interest in part of this, and I think it would be very helpful given what she's doing.

So that's kind of what I have to say.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Um next episode at home, people experiencing homelessness, and this was your first time presenting.

Oh, we presented to the Parks and Right.

Parsons, I did not have the thank God.

Yeah, calling me five minutes before we present it, and I was able to get to the um presentation on time.

So I apologize to my wonderful colleague Scott for leaving you in the lurk.

Um, but we had a great, it was a really productive conversation with ARPD um I think it it what I it did what we want of kind of highlighting all the great work um and really focused on aligning common missions I think we're getting a little bit each time the presenting of like what the points you want to emphasize did want to update that we I spoke previously that we were trying to get a flyer to be part of the fourth of July thing and that didn't come to fruition just I don't know I mean it was both of us um so that did not come in to happen but from picking up the race they don't actually give like flyers to the and their email doesn't like it actually might not be the right venue.

I in terms of like they don't hand out in and sometimes when you do races they like hand you like a bag of stuff and this they don't they just hand you your um bib.

But I think the thing to highlight about that is that they even in that event they do midway shelter does talk and speak and um so that that is aligning our mission we just weren't able to be involved in it.

But I think we're moving forward on our radar and a couple events and like where we're gonna speak next and other thing that we're putting our back burner is also to do like uh awards a volunteer awards ceremony that would be small we just present it at these meetings at a meeting here and like have an award for people but I think that's something we could just as a group maybe at the next meeting just talk about the categories and how we can do that I think um maybe aiming for like an October award ceremony so because I think then once we get into November and December it's a mess.

So that is the next thing we want to just like highlight and figure out some categories of like how we want to highlight um volunteers and aspect am I missing anything else Scott oh and age friendly cities I feel like you can speak more to that oh yeah um so age friendly cities we have a date at Mastic um and um thank you very much for making this I I like it because it has the whole community it's not necessarily senior focus even though some older adults in there um we're going to do um at Mastic on August 13th um at 9 a.m and I'm I'm gonna be working on the slide presentation please don't judge me if you happen to go to it to see it.

And um this will be our first community engagement I actually was thinking of a couple of things um so this is ready to go out on do you think on Monday this could go out to the other commissions so they're aware of it or is there a way of doing that especially want the disability commission parks and recognition for sure.

Okay thank you and I'll send I'll send this um to Morris and let him know and then what I was thinking you know I a lot to a lot of the framework in this I kept I was thinking too big city and we don't need to do that here because doing this in Oakland and I was I realized there's a large population of older adults that are at um dignity village and and we're gonna meet with them in in early August I could just we could actually organize meeting the following week and just and and do it there and I could do one there.

So that'd be that would be a great way of reaching a group of people that normally we wouldn't get and then I know there are some veterans that actually go to mastic and so if that's a meaningful enough large group I can actually talk to them during this and just set something up because you're kind of people all know each other a little bit here you know it's like that so I don't think these be anything major and formal in fact with those two other groups I could probably set something up and do it and I don't need necessarily staff supports on all these either so I'm not trying to like rope you into a bunch of meetings but but these would be things I could actually do for follow-ups and get the veterans group and and you know, people experiencing homelessness so um and then from that, we're um I'll develop a survey.

And hopefully, when when I start developing that we I we'll get you to you know pitch in and stuff.

We all look at that and um and I have a sample one that was actually done in Oakland that I don't think is completely suitable for us, but I'm gonna take some of the things from it because one would reinvent the wheel, you know, and we need to have some resources, so that's just the next step.

Yeah, yeah, I do.

Oh, use AI.

I'm gonna resist that as long as possible.

I know I'm saying that's already happened, it's too late.

I know.

According to Brock, no, sorry.

Lettuce.

Anyway, there's a lot of unreliable AIs out there too.

Um, anyway, that's so that's it.

Um, one more update when that's speaking of flyers today, but yeah, I've just been working on a couple of email draft direction.

Yeah, like an email drafted on the so I'll probably reach out to you on Monday about a couple things.

Yeah, and also one thing I want to do is it's 20, might as well do it.

The volunteer list for the next quarter is done too.

It's actually full three pages at this point.

Wow.

Yeah, it's really it's great.

We've got another whole full page with a volunteers based on the last edition.

So, yeah, it just feels really good to have people take interest in it.

Um, all right, so uh we are now at item five staff communications five A status report on City of Alameda's housing and human services.

So that will be from me.

I hold up.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh just want to share that.

Um partnership with the city manager leadership and the mayor, we submitted a letter to the county also around measure W and supporting those funds going towards homelessness, and specifically around supporting the preservation of existing programs and shelter bids, especially knowing that federal funds have we've lost some already, and we use additional federal funds, um, allocating funds to the city based on a clear metric that will ensure each city gets an allocation of funding and not just larger cities, and working having the county work collaboratively with cities, which it does sound like the counties interested in doing around decision making and uh funding priorities, and then also having local priority options, so there are funds that the cities are directly allocated to programs.

We have some um more lead way to support the residents of the city.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, so first update we're hiring an administrative support specialist to provide administrative DA to support uh the soul uh administrative support for the social service and the relations board and also for the Alameda Collaborative for Children and their families.

Uh we've received over 500 applications.

Wow, and yes, so we will be starting interviews next week for one position for one position.

Wow.

So hangers crossed.

Yeah, uh we are still accepting applications for the residential rehabilitation programs.

We've really like up our outreach with that.

Your social media has been great.

Oh, that's what I hear.

I haven't seen it, but our communications manager is great.

She's on it.

She is good.

Allie and I were doing paper flyers at Classic Senior Center.

I think it was appropriate for that venue.

We got some interest there as well.

Um again, it's not just for seniors, but they will be seniors at post-visibilities are prioritized.

An update on a day center relocation.

We're finally finalizing our contract with outside consultants and project manage the relocation.

We are still on track uh to open mid to late 2020s.

So that's exciting.

Uh on July 9th, the housing and human services division and the base reuse and economic development department.

Uh teens held a public arts forum for our interns.

We toured by band, visiting the many public arts places that we actually have around the island.

So, if y'all are interested, happy to give you some more information on that.

We have like pretty cool public arts commission program happening here.

Um on July 16th, the housing and Human Services um in-house outreach team tabled at the Albia County Homeless Resource and Job Fair.

They reported having the opportunity to interact with hundreds of participants, uh providing different resource guides and information.

One example is that Red has created a resource booklet.

They brought 300 and wow.

Wow.

And finally, I would like to end with a client success story.

A long-term unhoused client who is living in a local park moved into Dignity Village this week.

Over the last three years, many attempts were made to provide services and shelter to this client.

Case manager, Princess Iriano was able to break through.

The client accepted help and is now on a path of stability and wow.

And actually, this is my status report on housing and services.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So for it six, do we have any board communications that were not on the agenda?

There's still gonna be the special exhibition.

I was gonna say we have uh Tuesdays and Wednesdays uh uh Monday and Tuesdays are the only days that they're not open, so we can schedule some time in it, but there's going to be an exhibition at the open museum uh called Black Spaces Reclaim and Remain, which uh Bernie told me about moving vote, he and I gotta go check it out together.

I think it's gonna be very cool.

So we're forward.

Welcome to come here.

Can we come?

Yep, buy some sunshine.

Hey, Friday nights.

Friday nights are a good time to go.

It's free.

And then they have two trucks and yeah, you should have the season.

Yes, yeah.

Okay, yeah, it's like can we get can we do we can plan something out for the first Friday or something?

Well, first Friday is definitely all the time.

It's definitely Friday, yeah.

Oh, yeah, so let's definitely check in.

Um also just a delightful community event that people should know about.

Is Sunday is uh Alameda Firefighters Pancake Breakfast.

That is great pancakes.

The mayor's there also.

Um, and it's uh just a wonderful like community come together back into our social events.

And then the last thing I'm putting out there, I was gonna ho-hum.

I really think next year we should be in the parade, the fourth of July parade.

I'm putting it out there, because I think we could be in the early parts because they have all the city officials first, so we don't have to wait as long.

I'm sure he's gonna be asking for convertible because you don't want to be able to do it.

It's a long time.

No, we're gonna get you're gonna have your yeah, you know what?

Yeah, it's like a big stretch uh convertible.

It would be great.

So don't suicide doors on the right.

Oh, yeah.

Yes.

Oh, we have to anything, but I I think no.

I do think there's something said there that we should just see in all the boards.

I just was it really it was like we shouldn't be there.

So I'm letting it put it out there, see that we can do it.

And you're you're, do you have a fun card?

Yeah, but mine is not a converter.

So it's just me and me.

We're just dying waving at you from inside of the bush.

I feel like we could be be we could behind you or something.

Yeah, we're like, you could be the cool guy, Scott and you could be in the front.

Shocker.

One of the things I've learned about 50-year-old cars is they don't like a lot of stop and go trap.

Yeah, that's why.

Especially with the station.

I did the parade on a bike once with the B people in Alameda.

We all, you know, dress like bees and trees.

So I I heard people.

Um, okay, so one last thing, just kind of a silly thing, but I don't want to break our rules by asking us individually when the camera's off.

If anyone is actually a WABA fan and wants a little memento about the Valkyries, uh, come see me afterwards.

I have an extra something that I sold in Las Vegas.

Oh, yeah.

And I got something, it's a program there that you can't get here.

So there's an Asian Heritage, so we can bring that at all.

Okay, we went to Bucket Hat night and then Las Vegas.

Um, all right.

So with uh, oh any other board communications.

Um seeing none, we will adjourn the meeting at 8:22 p.m.

Hey, are we putting another board member?